HotAir Daily Express 03/06/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Report: Hillary didn’t mean to imply yesterday that she’s definitely not running in 2020]( 3/6/2019 11:21:02 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments She’s been playing this game for months. “I’d like to be president,” she said in October, stressing that “the work would be work that I feel very well prepared for having been at the Senate for eight years, having been a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Case dropped against Christian baker]( 3/6/2019 10:41:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The latest liberal attack against Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips has come to an abrupt end. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission dropped a lawsuit against Phillips, leading the baker to drop his own countersuit against the state. While [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN’s panel of Clinton voters: We love AOC! Biden … not so much]( 3/6/2019 10:01:18 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Get ready for her,” one panelist warns about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “she’s the candidate of the future.” Alisyn Camerota released more of her focus-group questioning of former Hillary Clinton voters to get a sense [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vote to condemn Omar likely won’t mention Omar]( 3/6/2019 9:21:20 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is there going to be a vote in the House today condemning Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s antisemitic rhetoric? What previously looked like a done deal is now in doubt. First of all, we don’t know if the vote (assuming it happens) will take [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh: Looks like Kim’s setting up for new missile launches]( 3/6/2019 8:41:29 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The collapse of the summit in Hanoi had a silver lining, the White House argued last week. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un parted on friendly terms, which guaranteed a continued halt to missile and nuclear tests. That represented a significant security [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [University doubles down on Chick-Fil-A ban, Dean resigns]( 3/6/2019 8:01:57 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Rider University, a private university in Mercer County, New Jersey is in the headlines again for banning Chick-fil-A from their campus. Rider University was making news with its original decision to overrule a student vote via survey back in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hey, Whatever happened to that anti-Trump Secret Service Agent?]( 3/5/2019 10:41:50 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Nothing, really. As unbelievable as it sounds, Kerry O’Grady, you may remember, set off a firestorm among her agency by posting on Facebook that she was endorsing Hillary Clinton in 2016 and would refuse to protect Donald Trump from an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Trump’s “associates” pressured his high school into hiding his old transcripts]( 3/5/2019 10:01:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s hilarious to me that Trump thinks people don’t just already assume he was a garbage student. What if the transcripts leak out and his image as a genius is sullied? I mean, really. The guy supports tariffs, for cripes sake. This story is classic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Arizona prosecutor: Uber not liable in deadly crash (but back-up driver may face charges)]( 3/5/2019 9:21:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Remember this crash which happened last March in Tempe, Arizona? A self-driving Uber test vehicle with a human back-up driver ran into a woman walking her bicycle across the street at night. Uber’s ability to test the autonomous cars in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 59% oppose impeachment proceedings against Trump — but more believe Michael Cohen than believe him]( 3/5/2019 8:41:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Sweet fancy moses. Imagining losing a credibility contest, decisively, to Michael Cohen, a man who’s headed to prison soon for lying under oath. It’s like getting blown out at home by the Jets. I kinda want to call this the second good [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Times of London: Leaked e-mails show Corbyn’s get-tough campaign on anti-Semitism going as well as you’d expect]( 3/5/2019 8:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The opposition parties from both members of the special relationship across the Atlantic have scandals involving anti-Semitism, but it reaches up farther in the UK’s Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn has long fought allegations of hostility toward [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Robin Roberts: That Jussie Smollett interview ‘was a no-win situation for me’]( 3/5/2019 7:21:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Robin Roberts has taken some heat over her interview with Jussie Smollett. Today Roberts reflected on the interview during an appearance at a daylong event put on by the Cut. Roberts says she had hesitation about the interview and admits she felt [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Canada shows us the endgame of transgender extremism]( 3/5/2019 6:41:09 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In case you weren’t already having enough trouble sleeping, let’s take a look at some new events on the transgender front, this time coming to us from our neighbors to the north. In Canada, the idea of “transgender kids” is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mike Bloomberg: Okay, fine, I’m not running for president]( 3/5/2019 6:01:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’d like to tell you that this is the last time we’ll have to suffer through a will-he-or-won’t-he cycle with Bloomy, as he’ll be 82 in 2024. But no, there’ll probably be a few “Is this the year?” news [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Danish study shows vaccinated children less likely to develop autism]( 3/5/2019 5:31:38 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments More than twenty years after British medical journal Lancet passed off a half-baked and dishonest observation as a reliable study, parents still refuse to vaccinate their children in fear of autism. The US now is dealing with outbreaks of diseases [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another cabinet minister resigns, Justin Trudeau considers making a display of contrition]( 3/5/2019 5:01:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week I wrote about the SNC-Lavalin scandal in Canada which has engulfed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration. If you missed that, the very brief version is that Trudeau’s former Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, has [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s EPA prepares to cave to King Corn yet again]( 3/5/2019 4:31:59 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s starting to look as if we’ll have to wait for Trump’s second term before he takes any action against the pervasive influence of the ethanol lobby, assuming he ever gets there at all. For the time being, however, King Corn [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Just FYI: The killer robot dogs are already learning how to do backflips]( 3/5/2019 4:01:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, I assumed that they already knew how to do backflips based on the fact that they know how to dance. Oh, and the fact that the truly scary humanoid robots that will murder us all once they become sentient have been doing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Congress: “I agree 100%” that we have to stick around in Syria for a while]( 3/5/2019 3:31:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When will we get out of Syria? Not any time soon, at least according to a response from Donald Trump to members of Congress who objected to his earlier declaration of victory and total withdrawal. NBC News reproduces the signed note from Trump to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: North Korea follies, conservative media bias, anti-Semitism, and more]( 3/5/2019 3:29:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is Captain Marvel a good movie? Does it matter anymore? (Update)]( 3/5/2019 3:05:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I should state up front that I’m a big fan of nearly all of the Marvel movies, largely because I grew up reading the comics and have a fondness for the characters. So, needless to say, I bought tickets for my whole family to see Captain Marvel [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Martina Navratilova is excommunicated from the LGBT church]( 3/5/2019 2:31:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Continuing with our recent trend of covering the “men dominating women in female sports” theme, another prominent female sports figure has now learned what happens when you speak out against the transgender narrative crowd. It [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Veto watch: WH tells Senate Republicans to “keep their powder dry” on overturning emergency declaration]( 3/5/2019 2:01:34 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The first rule of First Veto Club is not to talk about why you joined First Veto Club. And the second rule of First Veto Club is … well, you get the idea. The White House hopes Senate Republicans get the idea too, as it prepares for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: Trump job approval on the economy reaches new high]( 3/5/2019 1:31:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No incumbent president pulling 55 percent on the economy and unemployment can be counted out for reelection, however anemic his overall job approval might be. In fact, this poll is a reminder of how solid Trump’s 2020 prospects would look if [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AOC comes to Rep. Omar’s defense]( 3/5/2019 1:01:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today Ed wrote about President Trump’s contribution to the battle over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s latest anti-Semitic comments. But with Trump weighing in last night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who many have argued is the left’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] The Hill [Poll: Majority of Floridians opposed to Trump reelection]( USA Today [“We both fight”: President Trump fulfills dying man’s wish with phone call]( WSJ [Record immigration surge at the border]( WaPo [Major brands avoid Trump even as he promotes them from the White House]( BuzzFeed [“I’m fighting for my f***ing life!”]( Ross Douthat [What’s left of the center-left?]( CNN [Trump pressured staff to grant security clearance to Ivanka]( Jonathan Chait [Can anti-semitism split Democrats like it split Labour?]( Politico [Democrats plan to demand Trump’s tax returns in about two weeks]( CNN [Analysts: Satellite images show activity at North Korean missile site]( Jeva Lange [Why 2020 Democrats are ditching the red, white, and blue]( Bonnie Goldstein [I vetted judges and senior DOJ officials and never came across anyone like Jared Kushner]( NYT [As Trump moves to end trade war with China, business asks: Was it worth it?]( David Brooks [“Medicare for All”: The impossible dream]( David French [The temptation of John Roberts]( Caitlin Flanagan [Don’t sell Klobuchar’s cruelty and pathological behavior as a feminist victory]( Kyle Smith [Trump’s CPAC speech was spontaneous and endearing, and the media scolds hated it]( Paul Renfro [Dianne Feinstein was wrong to dismiss child activists as political pawns]( Conrad Black [The Cohen fiasco]( Alexandra DeSanctis [A word on abortion and conservatism]( Richard Fontaine [The inevitable return of muddling along in North Korea]( Adam Liptak [Precedent, meet Clarence Thomas. You may not get along.]( Guardian [Dude]( AP [Parents of dead West Point cadet retrieve his sperm]( Graeme Wood [Will John Bolton bring on armageddon — or stave it off?]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. [Visit the Townhall Media Preference Center to manage your subscriptions](. 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